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...three weeks his latest opera, Akhnaten, gets its British premiere at the English National Opera in London. Akhnaten received its first performance last year in Stuttgart, and has since played to packed houses in Houston and New York City. An earlier full-length opera, Satyagraha, which has had several productions in the U.S. and Europe, has been recorded by CBS Masterworks for release in July; Beverly Sills, a confirmed fan, has scheduled it for the New York City Opera next year. And last December the Brooklyn Academy of Music revived Einstein on the Beach, a 4 1/2-hour opera by Glass...
Image is an obsession. "There's no such thing as a fat yuppie," says Gene Street, principal owner of SRO, a fashionable Dallas restaurant and bar that features full-length mirrors in the men's lounge. "It's all part of a wave of self-love," says Author-Humorist Fran Lebowitz. "They've overweighted the sanctity of the human body. These bodies aren't temples. They're barely bodegas." Says Screenwriter Greenfeld: "It's fear of embarrassment. In Hollywood you can stuff coke up your nose until it falls off. But God forbid you should appear drunk in public...
...take the girl out of the Social Register (which they have), but you can't take the Social Register out of the girl. The formal charity affair in Manhattan last week was ever so just so--she in her pearls, taffeta debutante dress and full-length white kid gloves, and her brother Philipp Molzer in white tie and tails. After all, the honored lady of the evening was Sydney Biddle Barrows, 33, the New Jersey socialite whose family lines reach back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Barrows primly described the evening as "a lovely affair." Never mind that...
Customarily, the festival plays seem to be chosen to link up at least loosely in theme. This year there were fewer continuities. Of six full-length shows and six one-acts, three were Southern gothics, two more were raucous absurdist fantasies, three others dealt with diseases and hospitals, two depicted the betrayal of noble people by political movements they had served loyally, one was a heartfelt if muddled historical melodrama, and the last was a conventional two-character problem drama about a marriage. Although the scripts varied in diction and temperament, fully half were in essence realistic...
...beyond it, high on a hill in the distance, sits the Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized Jew, who in 1829 revived Bach's greatest religious work, the towering St. Matthew Passion, and in so doing unwittingly canonized...